Passive solar building design is the process of designing a building while considering sunlight exposure for receiving heat in winter and rejecting heat in summer. The main goal of a passive solar building design is to ...

This thesis describes college and university students' smoking behaviours and
examines whether socioenvironmental and personal characteristics experienced during
adolescence are differentially associated with their ...

This thesis consists of a quantitative analysis of the regional prevalence of certain
artistic motifs as they appear in Minoan wall painting of the Neopalatial period. This will
help to establish the relative degree of ...

During the Upper Cambrian there were three mass
extinctions, each of which eliminated at least half of the trilobite
families living in North American shelf seas. The Nolichucky
Formation preserves the record of one of ...

In this narrative self-study I retell and connect the stories ofmy personal journey with
literacy from childhood to the present. I use narrative as both methodology and method as
I story my life experiences and my personal ...

The study of peers as an influence on sport participation has received minimal exploration. The purpose of this cross-sectional study was to determine how peer created motivational climates (task-involved and ego-involved) ...

Within the school setting, recess is often reported as a frequent context for bullying (Vaillancourt et al. 2010), but is currently understudied. The present study utilized a mixed-methods approach in order to examine the ...

This study investigated the impact of an instructional learning strategy, peer-led team learning (PLTL), on secondary school students' conceptual understanding of biology concepts related to the topic of evolution. Using ...

Phe Ihesis examines the evolution of the -policies of
the People fs Jtenublie of China towards J?hail°nd, PTal ysia,
Singapore, Iidonesia pad the Philip-pines, organised in
the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ...

Despite general endorsement of universal human rights, people continue to tolerate specific human rights violations. I conducted a two-part study to investigate this issue. For Part I, I examined whether people tolerated ...

The topic of this research was alternative programming in secondary public
education. The purpose of this research was to explore the perceived effectiveness
of two public secondary programs that are aJternative to ...

Research suggests that self-blame attributions are important in the process of
adjustment to negative life events. Much of the research originates from JanofTBulman's
(1979) theory regarding behavioural and characterological ...

Parental monitoring has long been stressed as an important parenting practice in reducing
adolescent susceptibility to depression. An extensive review by Stattin and Kerr (2000), however,
, revealed that researchers ...

Objective
To evaluate the perceptions of healthcare workers in Vietnam about the efficacy of a continuing education strategy about father involvement and breastfeeding counselling.
Design
One group, post-test only, ...

Creativity is important to the growth and development of society, to educational
institutions, and to the personal growth of individuals. Students who are aware of their
creativity are assumed to have innovative ideas ...

Underlying intergroup perceptions include processes of social projection (perceiving
personal traitslbeliefs in others, see Krueger 1998) and meta-stereotyping (thinking about
other groups' perceptions of one's own group, ...

As of April 1, 2013 kinesiology became a regulated health profession in Ontario. With its own governing body, the College of Kinesiologists of Ontario (CKO), there are new ethical and professional standards to which ...

Twenty-eight young women who were members of the Girl
Guides of Canada as Rangers and Cadets from a convenience
sample chose to participate in this case study. They were
from four separate locations in Southern Ontario. ...